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Oooo, good point. The yin and yang problem, with a slight touch of Harrison Bergeron.

However.

I think the perception of subtlety would be preserved, if the subtitles had the features of TV subtitles:

* lag slightly behind events* dsigned to be inobtrusive and therefore ignorable* can be turned off

Interestingly, the problem of perceiving subtlety does come up in the process of closed-captioning television -- when it's being done live, you often get incorrect sound-alike words and phrases, and sometimes you can tell from the pauses that the captioner seems to be going, "did he really say THAT?" and struggling not to edit!